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From: scottb@hp-vcd.vcd.hp.com (Scott Bigelow)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Cambridge virus (PC)????
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Date: 16 Nov 90 22:10:37 GMT
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A friend of mine has what he thinks is a new virus called the
Cambridge virus.  He discovered it when he went to change the clock
back to standard time.  This seems to have triggered the virus which
destroyed the FAT area on his hard disk.

Now the strange thing about this thing is that from what he has been
told is that this virus does not reside on the disk, but in the
computer (maybe clock ram??).

Has anybody heard of this thing?  Is it possible to create a virus
that resides in ram?

Any help in getting rid of this beast would be appreciated.

Thanx,

Scott
scottb@hp-vcd.hp.com